The Bitcoin Game #67: Eric Martindale and Fabric

The Bitcoin Game

Welcome to episode 67 of The Bitcoin Game, I'm Rob Mitchell. Eric Martindale is a hardcore cypherpunk hacker. We get some details about Eric's past and present, including the well-known Bitcoin companies Eric has worked for, and Fabric, a decentralized, peer-to-peer protocol, created with the goal of replacing our current broken internet. EPISODE LINKS

Eric on Twitter https://twitter.com/martindale

Fabric https://fabric.pub

Fabric on Twitter https://twitter.com/FabricProtocol

BitPay (Wikipedia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitPay

Schildbach Wallet (Github) https://github.com/bitcoin-wallet/bitcoin-wallet

Airbitz (Wiki) https://en.bitcoinwiki.org/wiki/Airbitz

Blockstream (Wikipedia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockstream

Adam Back (The Bitcoin Game) https://letstalkbitcoin.com/blog/post/the-bitcoin-game-59-dr-adam-back

Elements Sidechain https://elementsproject.org

Liquid Sidechain https://blockstream.com/liquid

The Halting Problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem

Byzantine Generals Problem (Wikipedia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_fault

Homomorphic Encryption (Wikipedia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption

RPG games https://www.roleplaygateway.com

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